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Updated: June 2, 2025

It is not clear whether in England we learned those grand and decorous principles and manners, of which considerable traces yet remain, from you, or whether you took them from us. But to you, I think, we trace them best. You seem to me to be gentis incunabula nostræ.

Edmund Burke - The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)

A pamphlet which was at the time disseminated amongst the people openly called him the heir of Holland; and his engraved portrait, which was publicly exhibited, bore the boastful inscription: Sum Brederodus ego, Batavae non infima gentis Gloria, virtutem non unica pagina claudit.

Friedrich Schiller - History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete

Some thought the power to do it should be reserved, in case any peculiar circumstances should call for it, though under the present, or perhaps, any probable circumstances, they did not think it would be good policy ever to exercise it. The footing gentis amicissimæ was therefore adopted, as you see in the instruction.

Thomas Jefferson - Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1

He wrote a Life of Mary Queen of Scots , strongly in her defence, and two vols. of poetry, Summer and Winter Hours , and My Old Portfolio, the latter also containing pieces in prose. Poet, b. towards the close of the 15th century, and ed. at St. Andrews and Paris. At the request of James V. he translated the Historia Gentis Scotorum of Boece.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature